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This is a blog for the family and friends of Collin Park. He will be serving a two year mission in the Sierra Leone Freetown Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, he left on January 24, 2013. While Collin is on his mission his Mom will be posting pictures and letters as she gets them, the content will be straight from Collin (unless otherwise noted) - spelling and punctuation will be corrected of course! Commentary and clarification may be added by his Mom as needed.UPDATE: Collin's mission was split in half! The Sierra Leone Mission included the country of Liberia when Collin first left. As of July 1, 2013, the mission was split along the border and the new mission created: the Liberia, Monrovia Mission. Collin will never see the country of Sierra Leone. He has been in Monrovia Liberia since he left the MTC in Ghana.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Because of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Liberia and Sierra Leone Missions were evacuated on August 4, 2014 and missionaries were reassigned to different missions. Collin was reassigned to the Salt Lake City Central Mission.

Monday, October 21, 2013

October 21, 2013

This week was fun and stressful.
Actually every week is stressful, so many people to see, and not enough
time.It also doesn’t help that Tuesday
and Wednesday I was not in my area.I was
on 2 exchanges.

Tuesday i was in Paynesville with
the Zone Leaders. Elder Nabende (Uganda) is a good leader, great
missionary.I learned a lot.

On Wednesday I was with Elder Seiya (Sierra
Leone).He is very smart and always
wants to learn more. He has been a member for a while but is still
learning a lot. Hopefully I was able to help him learn something.

These two days were really good for
Elder Baldwin. This was his first time taking anyone into our area, kind
of an eye opener for him. When we finally went together on
Thursday, I could immediately see a difference in him. He learned a lot
and isn’t afraid to step in.I am really
impressed with him.(I asked him to
explain this a little more, and this is what he wrote:As a trainee, you trainer does most the
work. So, when the trainer goes on exchange, and you are now the 'senior
companion' in the area, it’s very scary, but you also learn that you can do
this work., that you are figuring it all out. It was good for him.
He has a lot more confidence in himself now)

Thursday I had an interview with President Kirkham. It was good.Since I am the district leader, I mainly just
talked about each member of my district. It was good for him to hear a
third party point of view on things. It’s always good talk to him face to
face.

Saturday we had baptisms. We combined with 3 branches, there was a total
of 14 people who got baptized. This gospel is so true and can change
everyone's lives if they just listen to it. The people of Liberia are
listening to it, changes are happening, families are benefiting. I know
without a doubt that this gospel will help everyone who gives it a chance. Me
and Elder Baldwin were able to have one person baptized. Sister Onihel is
a very smart woman who asks a TON of questions, but because of that, she was
able to learn truth.

One thing that our President has asked us to start having is an evening devotion
every day. We all gather and share some miracles that happened that day.
I never realized hope many miracles I am able to witness until we started
doing this. It really brings unity to the district. We also end
with a scripture thought and a kneeling prayer, then we all go our
separate ways and go to sleep.

One miracle I want to share happened on Friday. Sister veronica is a former
investigator but we dropped her due to her lack of interest, but whenever we
passed by we'd say hello. She was a "big belly" as Liberians
call pregnant women. On Friday she had a beautiful baby boy. When
we found out we immediately went there. We knelt down and had a kneeling
prayer. Even though we did not 'bless' the baby as we
would in church, the Spirit was so strong, and because of the prayer, we
know that Heavenly Father is going to protect that baby, that he is going to be
a strong man and great husband one day. The power in a kneeling prayer is
so strong.

I know that Heavenly Father hears each of our prayers and will answer them
according to His will. I know that He loves all of us.

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Elder Collin Park is serving a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He will be teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in Sierre Leone and Liberia (West Africa) from January 2013 until January 2015.